At number 17 on our year-end countdown of the tallest buildings under construction in New York is 625 Fulton Street, a 500-foot-tall mixed-use skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Fischer Rasmussen Whitefield Architects and developed by Rabsky Group with $450 million in construction financing from Madison Realty Capital, the 35-story structure will yield 1,098 rental units, 26,000 square feet of retail space on the lower levels, and an on-site parking garage for 250 vehicles. Galaxy Developers is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 485 Hudson Avenue and bound by the 34-story 80 DeKalb Avenue to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Rockwell Place to the east, and Hudson Avenue to the west.
Construction has topped out since our last update in early June, when the reinforced concrete superstructure had recently passed the halfway mark. Since then, crews have shifted to the installation of the grid of floor-to-ceiling glass windows, which now cover most of the exterior.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The metal framework has begun to go in between the windows on the west-facing elevation in preparation for the final exterior paneling, with crews working from hanging scaffolding platforms. The uppermost floors will use an all-glass curtain wall as depicted in the main rendering.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Most of the balconies are situated on the northern and southern ends of the L-shaped superstructure.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The first two stories of the podium remain exposed behind the sidewalk shed, and will likely be the final portion of the exterior to be enclosed. Metal frame studs are being placed around the northern end of the lower floor plates.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
625 Fulton Street’s residential program is reported to include 342 studios, 492 one-bedrooms, and 264 two-bedroom apartments, with 30 percent of the homes designated for affordable housing. A list of amenities has yet to be released, though the main rendering shows a landscaped rooftop above the podium that includes a tennis court, a children’s playground, and various seating arrangements.
YIMBY anticipates 625 Fulton Street to complete construction by the latter half of next year.
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Wake me up when they’ve finished it; but presently overwhelmingly underwhelming.
I can’t believe they put 250 parking spots in a building so close to transit, huge missed opportunity to lower the cost of building this thing. 250 Ashland right across the street has 0 parking spaces.
Parking is a lucrative business. Expensive to install in Manhattan. Less so in Brooklyn.
Nice a tennis court! A pool could have been cool too.
Wow, this is crazy big and could be a bit of a mess, but the final product will only tell.
Brooklyn really is growing.
What you expect for 2.5 million City inside the 8.5 million City!!!
And have now proper and very bold downtown, what’s many big cities missing, and it’s not a Houston replica or Dubai, Brooklyn’s is on its own!!!
Ew, 250 parking spots? This Robert Moses era planning needs to end
I have gained the confidence of construction is sure to progress, until its completion. The metal framework is secure, see to it: Thanks to Michael Young.
I think that at this point, Brooklyn has the most modern Downtown anywhere in the USA.
I think you forgetting LIC, even this doesn’t have supertall…
LIC is more clustered with skyscrapers and more modern, Brooklyn’s Downtown is more mixed up and have many historical buildings, yes many modern tall even one supertall skyscrapers, high rises anywhere now, but generally is now more mixed, with few clusters of true skyscrapers and tall high rises!!! Queens’ LIC is really have tall waterfront just in it’s Downtown, some skyscrapers are dull in design, while some are very innovative and attractive in design, they made big impact already on skyline view from Manhattan East Side, while Downtown Brooklyn is really doesn’t, position far more from Waterfront, tallest towers there in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, off off Brooklyn’s Downtown.
Yes big improvement for Downtown what’s now more and more became a smaller replica of Manhattan Wall Street District!!!
You need to get out more
Downtown Brooklyn more and more became a smaller replica of Manhattan Wall Street District alike, tall buildings, even 9 Decalb supertall, own historucal skyscraper district, majestic early late 1890s early prewar historical Buildings, like a post office, borough hall. Cobblestone stoned DUMBO district, the world of “modern” is not even proper, it’s outstandingly mixed properly Downtown, where old and newest buildings of various types and height and architectural style makes this Downtown #2 in NY is one of boldest downtown in entire United States, if not in entire American Continent!!! And before 2010 you can barely name few skyscrapers there, beside Art Deco Neoclassical mixed Williamsburg Bank and Clock Tower tower!!!
The prior plan was most significant.250 parking is a joke transportaation is abundant in the area
Glad to see parking is available. Some folks have cars and would like to not circle for hours trying to find parking.